Werewolves: Legends, Cases, Theories
to hunting with nine other werewolves. After he was incarcerated, he walked on all fours. He was sentenced to confinement to a monastery.
In 1859, in Bedburg, Germany, a crowd of 4,000 people gathered to watch the execution of Peter Stubb or Stump or Stubbe Peeter. He was described as a wicked sorcerer who, in the form of a wolf, committed many murders over a period of 25 years.
The townspeople were terrorized by what they thought to be a lone savage wolf that occasionally killed sheep and cattle, but showed a definite preference for humans.
Stubb, regarded as a brute, was a woodcutter. When he was caught, he was cornered in a ravine by a large party of hunters and their dogs. He scrambled on all fours, snarling and snapping like a wild animal. He fought with superhuman strength, but was overcome.
During his trial in Cologne, he gave, as testimony, the usual story of making a pact with the devil. He said he was given a wolf's pelt to protect him went he went on his murderous rampages.
1868, French police arrested Jacques Roulet, a beggar. He was hiding in a bush, covered with blood, not far from the body of a mutilated boy. He confessed that he killed the boy when he was a werewolf, a state induced by an ointment.
In a Roman garden, in 1949, people thought they saw a werewolf. They called the police. What was actually seen was a young man, crawling around on all fours and clawing the ground with long sharp fingernails. He was taken to a hospital and confessed that he regularly lose consciousness during the full moon and, when he regained awareness, he discovered he was prowling the streets, compelled by a strange compulsion.
July, 1958, Mrs. Delbert Gregg, in Greggton, Texas, believed she saw one on a night she was alone during a thunderstorm. She had just dozed off when she heard scratching sounds on her screen. She woke up and saw a huge, shaggy, fanged wolf like creature glaring at her through the screen. She grabbed a flashlight and jumped from the bed. The thing ran into bushes. She watched, waiting for an animal to appear, but, the figure of a man emerged from the bushes and walked down the road.
In 1970, four youths in Gallup, New Mexico claimed to have seen a werewolf near Whitewater. It ran alongside the car when the car
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